How long should I commit to Nutrisystem?

I sometimes hear from people who are trying to gauge how long they might be on the Nutrisystem diet. But they don’t know if there are guidelines on how much time you should spend on this diet. I heard someone say, “I am looking to lose about 45 pounds. I am reasonably active, but not too much. For how many months should I commit to Nutrisystem? Do I have to set a certain number of months or a set time for my commitment when I register? “I’ll answer these questions below.

There is no set time to stay on Nutrisystem. And you don’t have to compromise: I find that some people are under the wrong impression that the company requires that you stay on the diet for a certain period of time or for a certain number of months. People sometimes also think that you have to commit for a certain amount of time. This is not the case. The only person who decides your time frame or commitment is you. Generally, people abandon this diet once they have lost the target amount of weight. In terms of the woman who asked the question, if you were like most people, once you lost 45 pounds, you would simply decide to go off the diet. When I told him this, he asked how he was going to know how much commitment to make without knowing how long this would take.

The thing is, there is no commitment. You simply order your food while you still need it or are still trying to lose weight. You can order the food individually, but it will often be cheaper if you order a package. Although it is difficult to say exactly how long it will take to lose a certain amount of weight (because this depends on many factors such as your compliance and activity level), you can get a rough estimate by looking at the averages. Many people are said to lose about 2 to 3 pounds per week with Nutrisystem. Since this woman said she was reasonably active, I don’t think it was a great effort to put her in the middle of the range or around 2.5 pounds per week. This is around 10 pounds a month. If it was kept at a reasonably steady rate, then it was looking for about 4 1/2 months before losing the 45 pounds. So that would be 4 packages a month. You could order a 2 week pack for the remaining weight, but a better idea would be to go ahead and get a full month pack for that 5th month to have extra food for the transition. Many people find it helpful to go off the diet gradually rather than once.

But to answer the question posed, there is no set amount of time to be on Nutrisystem. Most people will continue the diet until they lose their ideal weight. And some give themselves a little more time to transition, so they have the best chance of long-term success and maintaining the lost weight.